LCA and ALW's Boknal Protest in Seoul, S. Korea is 2 Weeks Away!

On Friday, July 12, 2019, LCA and S. Korean sister organization Animal Liberation Wave (ALW) will protest Boknal—the three hottest days of the Korean summer when the consumption of dog meat soup rises to combat the extreme heat—in Seoul, S. Korea.

Currently, there is a legal contradiction that allows the dog meat industry to persist in S. Korea. Under the Animal Protection Act, dogs are legally recognized as "companion animals"; however, under the country's Livestock Industry Act, they are categorized as "livestock". Since Korean law considers dogs to be both companion animals and livestock, the current legal loophole exists.

In June 2018, S. Korean Member of Parliament Pyo Chang-won proposed an amendment to the Animal Protection Act to prohibit the killing of dogs and cats for meat. The bill is now stalled in the Agriculture, Food, Rural Affairs, Oceans & Fisheries Committee—and we need your help to get it passed!

2. Send a letter to the S. Korean consulate (as well as the Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Indonesian consulates as these countries also have a dog meat trade) and urge them to support a ban on the dog meat trade.